Deleting and Closing A Thread
Just curious how the system works with moderators. How do you determine when a thread should be "deleted" or "closed"? I think the one marijuana and CBD oils should be closed but hey, I'm not ...
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Too much has changed in the last two years under the new government. Unfortunately, most visitors and ex-pats don't speak the language so they don't watch and read local and national news. It's not good. Things have only gotten worse unless of course, you stick to ex-pat hangouts, rv parks, and the like.
I don't see many rv parks surviving. They've been on the decline since 2007 when all the trouble began with cartels. Too many incidents to recount and I, like many other Mexicans and residents lived some of those terrible times which are now returning thanks to a "no confrontation" policy from the federal government.
Poverty, crime, unemployment were on the rise during 2019 and now they have worsened. We're entering a socialist era and if anyone has read recent history about Latin American, they know it will not turn out well.
I do know that history has good news that may save Mexico. After each pandemic, there were 17 very critical pandemics in world history since the first recorded in 438 B.C., there will be a huge economic boom in democratic societies and developed nations. The end of WWI and the pandemic of 1918 show what happened; the roaring 20s, economic increases such as the stock market, a baby boom also followed.
I'm no longer confident you will see those things here though. Being an rver who can come and go on a whim, escaping a country that one day the decisions they don't like because of its politics, climate, poverty, or changes in laws is easy to do, they can just pick up and leave.
We are still very far behind on vaccinations (only 13 million in three months so that would mean another 2.5 years for full vaccination) so I wouldn't expect border issues to change much unless you are a U.S. citizen.
The northern 10 states have formed an alliance, Alianza Federalista, to fight for less federal control. History can and does repeat itself. Lots of reasons why we are doing this; poor tax base redistribution (northern states pay the most and receive the least, southern states pay the least and receive the most), the lack of formalizing informal businesses, elimination of critical federal institutions such as FONDEN (FEMA Mexico). After suffering the last three weeks with forest fires that have consumed 15,000 acres just across the highway from my house, we can see the damage of reversal in federal reforms and their consequences. Without FONDEN, we lost two weeks of valuable time renting C-10 tankers to put out the fires. We were close to evacuation, 1000 evacuated, homes, businesses, and livestock destroyed.
This is the new Mexico and we can tool around it in our rvs and ex-pat communities and pretend it doesn't have an effect on us.
Just like the pandemic, this is also history.
I don't see many rv parks surviving. They've been on the decline since 2007 when all the trouble began with cartels. Too many incidents to recount and I, like many other Mexicans and residents lived some of those terrible times which are now returning thanks to a "no confrontation" policy from the federal government.
Poverty, crime, unemployment were on the rise during 2019 and now they have worsened. We're entering a socialist era and if anyone has read recent history about Latin American, they know it will not turn out well.
I do know that history has good news that may save Mexico. After each pandemic, there were 17 very critical pandemics in world history since the first recorded in 438 B.C., there will be a huge economic boom in democratic societies and developed nations. The end of WWI and the pandemic of 1918 show what happened; the roaring 20s, economic increases such as the stock market, a baby boom also followed.
I'm no longer confident you will see those things here though. Being an rver who can come and go on a whim, escaping a country that one day the decisions they don't like because of its politics, climate, poverty, or changes in laws is easy to do, they can just pick up and leave.
We are still very far behind on vaccinations (only 13 million in three months so that would mean another 2.5 years for full vaccination) so I wouldn't expect border issues to change much unless you are a U.S. citizen.
The northern 10 states have formed an alliance, Alianza Federalista, to fight for less federal control. History can and does repeat itself. Lots of reasons why we are doing this; poor tax base redistribution (northern states pay the most and receive the least, southern states pay the least and receive the most), the lack of formalizing informal businesses, elimination of critical federal institutions such as FONDEN (FEMA Mexico). After suffering the last three weeks with forest fires that have consumed 15,000 acres just across the highway from my house, we can see the damage of reversal in federal reforms and their consequences. Without FONDEN, we lost two weeks of valuable time renting C-10 tankers to put out the fires. We were close to evacuation, 1000 evacuated, homes, businesses, and livestock destroyed.
This is the new Mexico and we can tool around it in our rvs and ex-pat communities and pretend it doesn't have an effect on us.
Just like the pandemic, this is also history.
